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...shady fundraising tactics, Republicans still "out-raised" Democrats by a couple of hundred million dollars. We're proud of the fact that the rich fat cats (of this country) don't give our party as much money, but, as a result, it becomes necessary for Democrats to kick and scrape to approach the amount of cash the Republicans rake in. Fundraising comes easy to Republicans; Democrats have to reach for something more. The defenders of Clinton obviously recognize the ethical issues involved in his fundraising tactics. But as far as they're concerned, if they are going to donate their...
...even Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps we could use bits of dna that linger in their remains. We could raise the clones in structured isolation and see what they would do. If dna survives the decomposition of the human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone the dna and find out if the Man of the Shroud was just some 14th century monk, as carbon dating apparently reveals, or if he really was the Son of God. Then perhaps...
...cartoon figure who divides her time between the country-club tennis pro and the hairdresser. But women like Lorna are often the difference between the guy who is stuck as vice president of human resources and the president. It's hard to feel sympathy for someone asked to scrape by on a mere $10 mil, but given her superior performance, shouldn't she share the spoils of reaching the top slot...
...Cambridge--it's life-long. But it may never be as intense as it can be here. The opportunities here for learning seemingly disparate fields such as Russian and computer science and for having both Hindu and Jewish friends are endless. But in many areas we really only scrape the surface, getting a glimpse of the vast subjects we know nothing about. The challenge we face here in this season of beginnings is to recognize these areas, and to start learning about them...
...curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...